Annela Anger-Kraavi has more than 20 years of experience in climate change policy and economics as well as in international climate change negotiations and facilitation. She holds a PhD in Climate Change Economics and MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include analysis of design and impacts of climate change policies on national economies, socioeconomic implications of low-carbon transition, co-impacts such as air pollution of climate change policies, and applied macroeconomics. Annela enjoys working closely with policymakers, businesses and environmental campaigners. She has advised and advises developing and developed country governments and UN bodies, serves on advisory boards of academic bodies and institutions. 

She is a Member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC), Vice-Chair of the Policy Advisory Committee's (PAC) Climate Policy Advisors Group (CPAG) of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and a founder of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Women Leaders Network. She is a recent Co-Chair and Member of the Katowice Committee of Experts on the Impacts of the Implementation of Response Measures (KCI) of the UNFCCC, former EU negotiator to the UNFCCC and IPCC, and recent Vice-Chair of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). She is also Chief Executive of the Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in Economics, a Member of the Estonian Association for the Club of Rome and a professor at the University of Warsaw, and a visiting professor at the University of Tartu.